However, the harsh reality of life forced Tanaka to suspend his studies after graduating from high school because he could not afford the tuition. 1March 934, Tanaka, 16 years old, came to Tokyo to make a living alone. He was an apprentice in a construction company, a deliveryman in a trading company and an intern reporter in Insurance Review magazine. During this period, he went to work during the day and studied in the private central technical school at night. With perseverance, he got a diploma in civil engineering from the school. 1938, after the Japanese invasion of China, Tanaka was drafted into the third brigade of Morioka cavalry and stationed in Heilongjiang Province, China. 1940 suffered from complications of pneumonia pleurisy and was sent back to China for treatment. The following year, he was demobilized as a wounded soldier.
Tanaka died of a serious illness and just recovered, so he returned to Tokyo to return to his old job. 1942, he married Hanako, the only daughter of a construction capitalist older than him. 1943 Tanaka civil construction co., ltd was established, with Tanaka as the general manager. By the time of defeat, the scale of operation had expanded several times, and Tanaka Civil Engineering became one of the top 50 construction companies in Japan. After the war, Tanaka became a famous rich man in the industry because of the skyrocketing real estate prices and more prosperous business. After the war, Shoko Asahara, former minister of state of Tojo's cabinet, appreciated Tanaka's financial resources and promising youth, and persuaded him to spend 3 million yen to support Tadashi Machida, leader of the Democratic Party, and Kazushige Ugaki, former secretary of the army, to run for the president of the Progressive Party. After the purge, a large number of right-wing politicians packed their bags and went home. He was pushed to the front desk by a group of right-wing politicians. The following year, he was finally elected to the House of Representatives. The Progressive Party later evolved into the Democratic Party, which split the gay club in Kurihara Kijiro.
From 65438 to 0947, Japan held a general election for a new postwar constitution. Tanaka was recommended to participate in the election of Niigata House of Representatives of the Democratic Party, and was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time. He served as a member and director of the House Construction Committee and was active in politics.
10, the Japanese political situation changed and Hitoshi Ashida's cabinet announced its resignation. A group of cadres of the Liberal Party, the largest party in Parliament, tried to introduce the Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party, Shigeru Yamazaki, as the new president to replace Ji Tianmao. When the general affairs meeting discussed this, the above opinions were one-sided, and Ji Tianmao had to resign and make way. At the critical moment, tanaka kakuei delivered a speech on "Japan is defeated, but the United States can't interfere in Japan's internal affairs", which kept Ji Tianmao's position as president. Out of gratitude and recognition for Tanaka's ability, Ji Tianmao appointed him as the Deputy Minister of Government Affairs of the Ministry of Justice.
40 days after Tanaka became the deputy government official, capitalists who opposed the formulation of the national coal mine management law paid bribes to government officials, and Tanaka was also implicated and arrested and imprisoned. Because of Ji Tianmao's campaign, he successfully ran for parliament in the detention center with a high vote, and was acquitted two and a half years later.
1950, after Tanaka was released from prison, he served as the general manager of Changgang Railway Company, and carried out electrification transformation with outstanding foresight, which made the railway reverse the situation of losses in successive years since the establishment of 19 15.
1In August, 953, Tanaka served as the director of Nissin Chemical Corporation, the deputy director-general of the Liberal Party, and the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. During this period, the Liberal Party maintained its position as the largest party in parliament in previous general elections, from which Tanaka played an important role.
From 65438 to 0954, tanaka kakuei served as Deputy Secretary-General of the Liberal Party. From 65438 to 0955, the Liberal Party and the Democratic Party merged to form the Liberal Democratic Party.
1955 chairman of the chamber of commerce and industry. From 1957 to 1958, Tanaka served as the postal minister of Kishi Nobusuke cabinet, which successfully quelled the postal union strike.
1July 1962 to1June 1965, tanaka kakuei was re-elected for the second time, and the third cabinet of Ikeda Hayato and the first cabinet of Eisaku Satō were in hiding. He is the main maker and executor of the national financial policy during the period of rapid economic growth. Because he knows more about the country's financial and economic situation, he is called "bright corner" by officials of the Ministry of Finance. When Sato served as Minister of International Trade and Industry at the end of the cabinet, it took him three months to solve the problem of textile trade friction between Japan and the United States that had plagued the government for three years. He devoted himself to studying the comprehensive strategy of transforming and developing Japan, and put forward the idea of "transforming the Japanese archipelago" mentioned later.
196 1 was appointed as the investigation chairman of the government of the liberal democratic party to solve the problem of medical expenses, 1965 was promoted to the post of secretary-general of the liberal democratic party. Because Tanaka is closely related to Ikeda and Sato, he plays an important mediating role in the relationship between Ikeda and Sato, the two largest factions in the Liberal Democratic Party. At the same time, a powerful faction with him as the core is taking shape.
1June, 972, Sato Rong issued a statement and resigned as Prime Minister and President of the Liberal Democratic Party. After two rounds of voting, Tanaka wooed faction leader Nakasone Yasuhiro and defeated Prince Kishida's Front in the triangle rich war, and Go prodigy Fukuda Takeo was elected as the new president. On July 7, Tanaka formed the first cabinet. Tanaka's active China policy has been welcomed by the China government. The two governments announced various situations, sent representatives to negotiate with each other, and quickly reached an understanding on major issues of principle in the spirit of seeking common ground while reserving differences. On the evening of July 3rd, 1972, Xiao Qian, the new chief representative of China-Japan Memorandum Trading Office in Japan, arrived in Tokyo. A week after Xiao Xiang arrived in China, in July 10, on the third day after Tanaka's cabinet was established,'s Prime Minister Zhou Enlai sent Sun Pinghua to lead the Shanghai Ballet to Tokyo and sent an invitation to Tanaka. On July 17, the Japanese agricultural farmers' delegation arrived in Japan as a temporary guest, and conveyed Premier Zhou's important instructions on the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan to Sun Pinghua and Xiao Xiao. Premier Zhou's instruction is: "Welcome Tanaka's cabinet to step up the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan. Chairman Mao told me to be positive. It's good that Japan can come to China for talks, whether it is successful or not. In short, it is time to hurry. " Premier Zhou also instructed Sun Pinghua and Xiao to seize the opportunity of meeting with Prime Minister tanaka kakuei and Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira and convey Premier Zhou's invitation to China to Tanaka, so as to realize Prime Minister Tanaka's visit to China and discuss the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan.
On July 20th, 1972, at a reception hosted by Fujiyama Aiichiro, a Japanese friend and LDP official, to welcome George W. Xiang Qian and Sun Pinghua, Tanaka's cabinet officials, including Foreign Minister Masayoshi Daping, Minister of State Takeo Miki and Minister of International Trade and Industry Nakasone Yasuhiro, were invited to attend. On July 25th, just 18 days after Tanaka became prime minister, he sent Yi Shengdeng, a close friend of Komeito Party, to visit China to discuss Tanaka's visit to China and the resumption of diplomatic relations between the two countries. From July 27th to 29th, Zhou Enlai met with him three times to convey the general principle of normalization of Sino-Japanese relations. 20 10 On August 6th, Foreign Minister Daping met with Xiao. According to small memories, the talks lasted about an hour, and there was basically no difference between the two sides during the talks. Finally, Daping said: "Prime Minister Tanaka and I both believe that the time is ripe for the head of Japanese government to visit China and normalize diplomatic relations." On September 2 1, the Chief Cabinet Secretary announced that Tanaka would visit China for the normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and China.
1In July, 972, he served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party. In September of the same year, he visited China and signed the Sino-Japanese Joint Statement, which normalized the diplomatic relations between Japan and China. 1973 10 10 In October, tanaka kakuei and Brezhnev signed a joint statement, and the two sides reached an agreement on the negotiation of a peace treaty between Japan and the Soviet Union. On the Middle East issue, Japan adopted the "New Middle East Policy" to support Arab countries in resisting aggression in order to obtain needed oil. On 25th of the same year, a huge delegation led by tanaka kakuei arrived in Beijing. In order to make the visit a success, Tanaka also sent an advance team and a government special envoy to visit China before the official visit, and held many consultations with the China government on the schedule and details of the visit. At the banquet, tanaka kakuei used the words "trouble" and "deep introspection" in his answer, but he was criticized by Zhou Enlai as insincere. Tanaka kakuei pointed out that from the Japanese point of view, "adding trouble" really means apologizing. After talks and consultations, it was finally expressed as "responsibility" and "deep reflection" in the joint statement.
1972 On September 29th, the heads of government of China and Japan signed the Sino-Japanese Joint Statement in Beijing, announcing the normalization of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Tanaka's domestic policy is mainly reflected in his plan of "Japan Islands Reconstruction". As early as when he was prime minister of Sato's cabinet, he began to conduct a comprehensive investigation and study on land development and transformation, and wrote his own economic development strategy into the book On the Transformation of Japanese Islands. According to Tanaka's vision in "On the Transformation of Japanese Islands", in order to solve the increasingly serious problems of air pollution, traffic congestion, housing shortage and over-dense and over-sparse population in urban and rural areas, and revitalize Japan's economy, a number of cities with a population of 250,000 should be established throughout the country, and enterprises, capital, technology and manpower concentrated in big cities should be transferred to newly-built cities and economically underdeveloped areas through relevant industrial tax policies formulated by the state. And build 1 10,000 km railway and 1 10,000 km highway, forming a network of high-speed railways and expressways all over the country, closely connecting urban and rural areas throughout the country, thus completely changing the population distribution of industrial production, "eliminating the differences between cities and rural areas, foreign Japan (Pacific coast area) and internal Japan (Japan sea coast area), thus building a whole Japan where families can reunite and the elderly can safely spend their old age."
In order to realize such an ideal society, Tanaka put the idea of island transformation into practice as the top priority of internal affairs after taking office. He set up his own consulting organization-Japan Island Reconstruction Symposium. Assist him to study and formulate relevant policies, and order government departments headed by the Ministry of Economic Planning to urgently study and formulate specific transformation plans. According to the suggestions of these institutions and departments, the Cabinet meeting put forward the Outline of Land Countermeasures and the Law on Comprehensive Land Development in June 1973 and March 1973, and formulated a large-scale financial budget with the characteristics of "island transformation" for 1973, and began to implement the seventh five-year plan for road improvement and the fifth comprehensive rural development. It should be said that the island reconstruction plan itself is reasonable, but it is based on the premise of rapid economic growth. After entering the 1970s, the conditions supporting Japan's rapid growth are rapidly losing. In this sense, Tanaka misjudged the situation and chose the wrong time to implement the plan. The purpose of capitalist production is to pursue profits. Although the transformation of the island is reasonable in the long run, it cannot bring tangible benefits to the capitalists. Therefore, as soon as the transformation plan was implemented, it encountered various obstacles, especially the relocation of factories and the construction of new towns. On the contrary, the land price in big cities has actually increased by 30% in one year, and the problems of cities, land and housing are more serious.
1973 10 In June, the fourth Middle East war broke out, and Arab countries raised oil prices one after another, which dealt a heavy blow to Japan, which was totally dependent on oil imports. Only two months after the oil price was raised, the domestic oil price in Japan tripled, which is called the "oil crisis". In addition, the rising land price has seriously affected industrial production and national economic life, and aroused a wave of snapping up daily commodities and driving up prices. "Crazy prices" aroused people's great dissatisfaction with Tanaka's cabinet.
1In July, 974, Takeo Miki and Yasuo Fukuda, leaders of the Miki faction and Yasuo Fukuda faction of the Liberal Democratic Party, resigned from the cabinet at the same time, and the Tanaka regime was in crisis. On June 9th of the same year, 1 1, Literary Spring and Autumn Magazine published an article by critic Li Hualong: A Study of tanaka kakuei-His Financial Resources and Popularity, which exposed the doubts about Tanaka's asset formation and his private life, including the relationship between men and women. As soon as Li Hualong's article was published, it immediately caused an uproar in China. Tanaka's source of funds and the erotic articles of Akira Sato, the head of his election support group, have become hot topics in the street. Tanaka couldn't stand such a heavy blow any longer, so he had to resign after dealing with his work. Tanaka kakuei served as President of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan and Prime Minister of the Cabinet in 1972. 1974,1/kloc-0 in June, tanaka kakuei resigned as prime minister and president of the liberal democratic party and became the leader of the Tanaka faction of the liberal democratic party.
1In February, 976, the bribery case of Lockheed Company broke out. 1On February 4th, 976, Qiu Biqi, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Transnational Corporations of the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate, exposed the unfair competition fact that Lockheed bribed foreign dignitaries to sell planes abroad in various names.
At that time, Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Miki called an emergency meeting of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Cabinet, announced his support for the judicial department to carry out the investigation, and set up a special investigation committee. At the same time, he ordered the foreign minister to carry out "case handling diplomacy" and asked the United States to provide all materials related to Japan to provide strong evidence for handling cases in China.
1On March 24th, 976, at the strong request of Japan, the United States and Japan signed the Agreement on Judicial Assistance, agreeing to provide Japan with relevant materials on the Lockside case. Including a receipt for 500 million yen to tanaka kakuei. By July, the Japanese procuratorate had arrested several important figures, including the chairman of Marubeni Company, and obtained corresponding evidence, making preparations for the arrest of tanaka kakuei.
1On July 27th, 976, the Tokyo District Prosecutor's Office formally arrested tanaka kakuei, announcing that he was suspected of accepting a bribe of * * * 500 million yen from Lockheed through Marubeni Company during his tenure as Prime Minister from August 1973 to February/974, and decided to arrest him on suspicion of violating foreign exchange laws. Subsequently, after nearly a month's trial, the Tokyo District Prosecutor's Office decided to sue tanaka kakuei for violating the Foreign Exchange Law and accepting bribes by entrustment. /kloc-in August, 2007, tanaka kakuei was released on bail after paying bail of 200 million yen. Tanaka kakuei quit the LDP, but Tanaka faction is still a strong faction within the LDP.
After bail, tanaka kakuei organized a strong team of lawyers to defend himself from many angles. In addition, not long after, due to the negligence of the procuratorate, the driver of the key witness tanaka kakuei committed suicide, his secretary retracted his confession, and various political forces intervened, so the trial of the case was tortuous. Tanaka kakuei keeps introducing new witnesses and evidence, and at the same time tries to prove from a legal point of view that the authority of the Prime Minister has no practical influence on the self-dealing of private airlines. At the same time, the procuratorial organs put forward all kinds of counter-evidence to refute tanaka kakuei, and finally, through the ex-wife of tanaka kakuei's secretary to testify in court, tanaka kakuei and his secretary's retraction were exposed. 1983 10 12 10, tanaka kakuei was sentenced to four years' imprisonment and fined 500 million yen by the Tokyo District Court. Tanaka refused to accept the judgment and appealed. In the general election of the House of Representatives in June 65438 +0983+February 65438, Tanaka continued to be elected as a non-partisan candidate.
After tanaka kakuei appealed, after the second trial, 1987, the Tokyo High Court ruled that his appeal was rejected and the original judgment was upheld. Later, tanaka kakuei filed a second-instance appeal. 1995, after three trials, the Japanese Supreme Court made a final judgment, dismissed tanaka kakuei's appeal of second instance according to law and upheld the original judgment. At this point, tanaka kakuei has been dead for nearly two years.
From 65438 to 0989, tanaka kakuei retired from politics and lived in seclusion. 199365438+February 16 at 2: 04 pm, tanaka kakuei died at the age of 75.